Larry Stotler said the following on 05/22/2013 02:38 PM:
KDE4 has stuff I dont need nor want.
Same here. So I turn it off. Turning it off is easy.
I don't see the need for Akondi(I don't use KMail or any KDE PIM stuff),
I don't use them either. So I turn them off or simply don't install them.
I don't need Phonon(I
What's "phonon"?
I don't NEED a semantic/social desktop - I don't use Facebook or Google+ either.
Ditto, but I'm unclear what that has to do with KDE4. I use Google+ but that's all in Firefox, nothing to do with KDE4. I use it on another machine as well, with firefox and xfce. I don't see your point.
I don't need nepomuk/stringi because I don't NEED to search my files.
Same here; I organize them :-) All very good, Larry, but so far you've not said anything about why someone, even yourself, shouldn't use KDE4. The point about most things in Linux is that they are there if you want them. LDAP is there if I want it; I don't so I don't enable/install/run it. Big Deal.
I don't tell people not to use KDE4. I stated why I DON'T use it.
Yes, but I can say all you said and I *DO* use KDE4. Turning things off - or simply not installing them in the first place, was less effort than I put into configuring KDE3 back when I was using that. Not installing things is a good way not to use them :-)
Back in the day with KDE2/3 we had something called KPersonalizer that started on the first login that allowd turing off eye-candy & bling.
Its now done in 'systemsettings'. New name, slightly more functionality, arranged a bit differently. Systemsetting -> desktop effects -> general -> enable
I BEGGED for that to be ported over to KDE4 to help those like ME that don't want that crap to have an easy way to turn it off. Never happened.
Of course not; Back to your point about "it shouldn't have been called KDE...". With a different architecture you can't simply 'port over' the low level stuff like that.
WHY should I WASTE MY TIME learning to customize something I don't see any advantage or compelling reason to use. That's MY Choice.
Ah. This sounds very like Microsoft re-designing the GUI for MS-Office on each release and people no longer being able to use it because the GUI is different. Or people not being able to move from Microsoft 97/98/XP to any version of Linux/any DM because the GUI is different. -- How long did the whining go on when KDE2 went on KDE3? The only universal constant is change. If a species can not adapt it goes extinct. That's the law of the universe, adapt or die. -- Billie Walsh, May 18 2013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org